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by akgerber 10y ago
That's because the SJ VTA is a terribly-designed transit system trying to traverse a region built almost entirely built around automobile travel as opposed to walking :)
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by akgerber 10y ago
That is the premise, and you agree with it? "We have a strong hunch as to why traveling faster might not generate more satisfaction with the transportation system. Faster travel is often correlated with lower density, and longer travel
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by akgerber 10y ago
The free market isn't the state of nature but rather a social construct of the state. So are rural electrification and telecom programs. And rural residents in New York state aren't universally conservative by any means.
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Uber’s toxic culture of rule breaking, explained(vox.com)
3 points by akgerber 10y ago|0 comments
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by akgerber 10y ago
A trip between London and Paris is faster than a trip between New York and Boston.
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by akgerber 10y ago
I use Firefox on Android with an adblocker installed via its extensions page without root and it makes me a happy browser. It obviously doesn't do anything for other apps, though.
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Ask HN: Best internal wikis?
7 points by akgerber 10y ago|6 comments
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by akgerber 10y ago
Copenhagen is definitely colder than Seattle, with lows below freezing all through the winter. It's definitely harder to ride a bike in cold winter weather— but the same is true of walking and driving. One mostly needs cleared roads&#x
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by akgerber 10y ago
You can have a bedroom that's larger than an entire NYC apartment and an ample garden in the walkable inner neighborhoods of small midwestern cities, too. My parents live in an inner streetcar suburb of Milwaukee, have plenty of living
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by akgerber 10y ago
Yet Minneapolis is one of the US' best bicycling cities, and one can bike all winter if dressed sensibly. Likewise, truly-cold Edmonton is building out an extensive bike lane network: http://edmontonjournal.com/news&#x2
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by akgerber 10y ago
Hugely so— much of the density of Japan's cities today, and many traditional cities worldwide, comes from small single-family homes and apartment buildings. They just don't have parking lots and huge roads between them. High-rises
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by akgerber 10y ago
Plenty of millennial in the target audience of this website are doing A-OK and are perfectly able to invest, though perhaps not afford a house in Silicon Valley.
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by akgerber 10y ago
I have a Garmin band and, at the 6 month mark, it's starting claiming I'm climbing 50 banks of stairs a day. So they're not perfect either.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Macs generally maintain a lot of resale value, and are generally worth selling on even after 3 or 4 years— so, even if it doesn't meet your needs, it is unlikely to go into a landfill.
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by akgerber 10y ago
A lot more folks are OK with jury duty than conscription, because it imposes a lot less on one's life, and the argument for its necessity to a just society is more convincing to many.
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by akgerber 10y ago
By that argument, jury duty is slavery.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Wealth is not necessarily the product of one's labor— especially in large quantities.
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by akgerber 10y ago
I'm not sure I believe your assertion that building a PC makes people love it for life— I built a PC in high school, then switched over to a Macbook for college and haven't looked back. Now that fiddling with computers is my job,
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by akgerber 10y ago
"Induced demand" is the bane of attempt to reduce congestion in the history of automobiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
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by akgerber 10y ago
That's all well and good, but in most urban areas of the US, business owners can't even choose whether they want to cater to you as a customer— instead, all new development is required to have a certain quantity of parking by legi
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by akgerber 10y ago
While the algorithm is an interesting development, any discussion of 'reducing traffic' without even acknowledging the concept of induced demand is an indicator that someone isn't engaging with urban planning remotely serious
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by akgerber 10y ago
In most cycling-oriented countries, those kinds of distances would be dealt with by better bike parking at the train stations. "2-fare zones" in NYC are still generally within a quick bike ride of a sub-1-hour subway ride to all o
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by akgerber 10y ago
Many of those same people probably also don't post their relationship status on Facebook.
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by akgerber 10y ago
That was called a 'Tall Wagon' in its day: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/tall-wagons-ranked-1690577814 Convergent evolution has replaced many SUVs with 'crossovers', which are basically the same thing, w
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by akgerber 10y ago
What is the social agenda that Toronto city planners are pushing in your example? It sounds like they addressing the same problem the private transit route is addressing, more slowly but more durably and more accessibly by bringing new stre
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by akgerber 10y ago
As would modifying land use regulations to enable people to live closer to their workplaces (by allowing mixed-use neighborhoods full of multifamily buildings without mandatory auto parking, and building the mass transit network to support
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by akgerber 10y ago
Depends on the suburb, too— I grew up in a prewar streetcar suburb where all the kids walked to school in the 90s (although there weren't really corner stores that kids went down to for milk or whatever). More 'modern' suburb
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by akgerber 10y ago
New York City has continually been running its R32 trains since the 1960s, outlasting several newer trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R32_(New_York_City_Subway_car)
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by akgerber 10y ago
You can always move to Minnesota. You'll just need a good jacket.
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by akgerber 10y ago
Having a 2-hour commute driving in heavy traffic every day is something many people, myself included, would move across the country to avoid. In general, it's awful for one's relationships and health, and it's awful for the e

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